I started canning last summer and am now getting a large variety of canned foods that are readily available. Those things that I can't can or dehydrate are in the freezer. Without realizing it I guess I've got a system in place. Glad you're on the mend and you have a great bunch of kids that could help you.
Great ideas! I am obviously new to the homesteading but many "systems" from the past I have implemented . I, too, double and triple recipes for later. I also like the "mix and match" approach that many do with clothes - Monday's veggie sauce with rice becomes a new dish the next day with pasta - just add a different salad! I always have cut up fruits and veggies at hand for snacks, and I use small pockets of time during the day to cut up ingredients for that night's dinner - saves time! Another system that has worked for me over the decades is to clean up - or repair -one area of your life or house a day. Like a drawer, or a corner. Clean up like 20 min a day - give special areas of your house extra attention. Over the course of a year any house looks different than not doing it. A new system I want to implement is to have a huge box or basket with "stuff" I want to donate or barter with - as new "stuff" comes into the house, other "stuff" regularly has to go, that was a great concept with my kids when they were still at home. As always, a great video, thank you!
Thank you so much I am glad you are enjoying the content here! I love your systems. Thank you for sharing them. We have a dedicated place we put donation items or hand me downs for cousins. Things are always coming in and going out. LOL. I have recently implemented a 10 minuet improve our space system with my children. We each go as fast as we can and pick something to make better. It allows the kids to have to find something to improve on their own and for each of us to participate. They love it.
I am still working on building systems. I don’t have any, really, right now and I get so overwhelmed with everything. As much as I want to live in the country and have a giant garden and goats, and a milk cow and chickens and rabbits,.. honestly I’m so glad that I’m limited to my small townhouse yard right now. I grew up on a hobby farm and my parents main goal was to teach us how to survive, so I know how to garden and preserve and raise animals, but I never learned how to do them on my own. I always just helped, I never planned the garden or coordinated butchering day or any of that so those are the skills I’m working on now while I wait for my dream property out in the country.
A great farm friend of mine once told me this: Start small. I have found this to be some of the best advice. If you take care of what you have right now and begin to implement tiny changes they will compound over time and before you know it you will be on that dream farm. For now remember you are on your own journey - it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. Keep your eyes fixed on your own process. Decide where you personally want to be in let's say 3-5 years and then start taking tiny baby steps to get you there. My own journey has taken 20 years to get to this point. One small change at a time. The first year on our homestead I put in a 30x30 garden (I had experience gardening) and we got 10 chicks from the store. That's it. Then as we learned we added things and when you are on a farm things naturally take place. Eventually they grew up and we had to butcher roosters. So we learned that skill. Then I had to learn to make broth. I did that so I wouldn't waste the chickens.... one thing leads to another... as will happen on your own journey. I find when I am overwhelmed the best thing I can do for myself is focus on this moment right in front of me. Then I do something positive in that moment. My favorite question is what can I do now that will positively impact my next 5 minuets? keep asking that question over and over again. You got this!
Boo on getting sick…. We don’t have a ‘plan’ per se..but I’m attempting to stock pantry with home made goods. Tomato sauce was done 1st season. Got lots of veggies in freezer. Canning hamburger & chicken when it’s in sale. Learning more about herbs, salves etc…
I like how you looked backwards to improve on what comes next. 👍💪🙏
Thank you. 👍
I started canning last summer and am now getting a large variety of canned foods that are readily available. Those things that I can't can or dehydrate are in the freezer. Without realizing it I guess I've got a system in place. Glad you're on the mend and you have a great bunch of kids that could help you.
Well done creating a resilient system!! How wonderful! Thank you. I'm glad to be feeling better.
You don't raise to the level of your goals, you fall yo the level of your systems!💪😎
That's it!!
Great ideas! I am obviously new to the homesteading but many "systems" from the past I have implemented . I, too, double and triple recipes for later. I also like the "mix and match" approach that many do with clothes - Monday's veggie sauce with rice becomes a new dish the next day with pasta - just add a different salad! I always have cut up fruits and veggies at hand for snacks, and I use small pockets of time during the day to cut up ingredients for that night's dinner - saves time! Another system that has worked for me over the decades is to clean up - or repair -one area of your life or house a day. Like a drawer, or a corner. Clean up like 20 min a day - give special areas of your house extra attention. Over the course of a year any house looks different than not doing it. A new system I want to implement is to have a huge box or basket with "stuff" I want to donate or barter with - as new "stuff" comes into the house, other "stuff" regularly has to go, that was a great concept with my kids when they were still at home. As always, a great video, thank you!
Thank you so much I am glad you are enjoying the content here! I love your systems. Thank you for sharing them. We have a dedicated place we put donation items or hand me downs for cousins. Things are always coming in and going out. LOL. I have recently implemented a 10 minuet improve our space system with my children. We each go as fast as we can and pick something to make better. It allows the kids to have to find something to improve on their own and for each of us to participate. They love it.
I am still working on building systems. I don’t have any, really, right now and I get so overwhelmed with everything. As much as I want to live in the country and have a giant garden and goats, and a milk cow and chickens and rabbits,.. honestly I’m so glad that I’m limited to my small townhouse yard right now. I grew up on a hobby farm and my parents main goal was to teach us how to survive, so I know how to garden and preserve and raise animals, but I never learned how to do them on my own. I always just helped, I never planned the garden or coordinated butchering day or any of that so those are the skills I’m working on now while I wait for my dream property out in the country.
A great farm friend of mine once told me this: Start small. I have found this to be some of the best advice. If you take care of what you have right now and begin to implement tiny changes they will compound over time and before you know it you will be on that dream farm. For now remember you are on your own journey - it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. Keep your eyes fixed on your own process. Decide where you personally want to be in let's say 3-5 years and then start taking tiny baby steps to get you there. My own journey has taken 20 years to get to this point. One small change at a time. The first year on our homestead I put in a 30x30 garden (I had experience gardening) and we got 10 chicks from the store. That's it. Then as we learned we added things and when you are on a farm things naturally take place. Eventually they grew up and we had to butcher roosters. So we learned that skill. Then I had to learn to make broth. I did that so I wouldn't waste the chickens.... one thing leads to another... as will happen on your own journey.
I find when I am overwhelmed the best thing I can do for myself is focus on this moment right in front of me. Then I do something positive in that moment. My favorite question is what can I do now that will positively impact my next 5 minuets? keep asking that question over and over again.
You got this!
Great ideas! Thank you!!
Glad you like them!
Boo on getting sick….
We don’t have a ‘plan’ per se..but I’m attempting to stock pantry with home made goods. Tomato sauce was done 1st season. Got lots of veggies in freezer. Canning hamburger & chicken when it’s in sale. Learning more about herbs, salves etc…
That is a fantastic start! We all start with the first step. 😃
Great message! That’s a rough bug. My husband got it but my elderberry and vitamin D did their job. Glad you’re better.
So glad you stayed well. Hopefully he's all recovered now. Poor guy.